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Herzl used the stage to examine his own attempts to assimilate into European culture. Protagonist Jacob Samuel breathes his last in the final scene of The New Ghetto

Herzl’s Psychodrama

Internal Eruption Surprisingly, prior to October 1894, even Theodor Herzl didn’t think a Jewish state was possible. On October 17, reviewing a play for his longtime employer, Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse daily, Herzl slammed the...

19th century

anti-Semitism

Literature and Culture

Theodor Herzl

Vienna

The image that became a Zionist symbol: Herzl speaking from the podium at the first Zionist Congress||||||||||

The Congress that Founded the Jewish State

Asael Abelman

Few famous names attended the first Zionist Congress in Basel, but it made Zionism a political movement no one could ignore Asael Abelman In February 1896, Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State). Discussed in...

19th century

Articles

Independence Day

Issue 14 | December 2012

Switzerland

Theodor Herzl

Zionism